| 20110316534 | SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF BITUMEN AND WATER CONTENT IN OIL SAND AND OIL SAND EXTRACTION PROCESS SAMPLES USING LOW-FIELD TIME-DOMAIN NMR - A method for quantifying bitumen and/or water in a sample comprising bitumen, water and solids using a time-domain nuclear magnetic resonance pulse spectrometer is provided comprising the steps of: initially saturating the magnetization of the sample so that essentially no magnetization remains in the +Z axis; subjecting the sample to a sequence of radio-frequency pulses optimized for the measurement of bitumen and water in the sample; allowing the recording of the transverse relaxation (T | 12-29-2011 |
